Chinese Youth Party

The Chinese Youth Party is a minor fascist political party in Taiwan. The party was founded on 2 December 1923 in Paris, France, and the party took its name from the Young Turks, whom they viewed with admiration. The CYP advocated the removal of the warlords of China and the establishment of a strong central government, and it was strongly anti-communist and xenophobic. Ironically, the party supported the warlords during the Northern Expedition in 1926-1928 because of their opposition to the communists, and it also fought against the Kuomintang in opposition to Chiang Kai-shek's one-party state. In 1928, the party was banned after it refused Chiang's offer to merge with the Kuomintang, but it joined the united front against Japan in 1937, having called for formal war since the invasion of Manchuria in 1931. The party was once a member of the China Democratic League, but it left when the CDL moved towards socialism, and the YCP moved to Taiwan with Chiang's followers after the Chinese Civil War's end in 1949. By the 1990s, the party lost all of its seats in the parliament after Taiwan transitioned to democracy.